TY - JOUR A1 - Chopra, Surendra T1 - Terrorism: The Apex of Violence – A Prolegomenon to Its Causes JF - India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 47, No. 4 (1991), pp. 83-96. [Online ISSN 0975-2684] [doi.org/10.1177/097492849104700404] N2 - >As the inhumanity of man to man, violence has woven its fearsome thread from caveman to technological man< says a distinguished writer on the problem. According to Erich Fromm: >If a human being cannot create, he destroys.< He adds: >If man cannot create anything or make a dent in anything or anybody, if he cannot break out of the prison of his total narcissism, he can escape the unbearable sense of powerlessness and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create.< From justifies violence when he says: >Destruction is the creative, self-transcending act of the hopeless and crippled; the revenge of unlived life upon itself.< Y1 - 1991 ER -